Zart Extra Term 2 2011
Poster Colours
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Zart Drawing Blocks & Poster Colours - Resist Method
Butterfly
1. Use a black Drawing Block to draw a butterfly flying over some flowers.
2. Use Poster colours to colour the drawing in vivid colour.
3. Cut around the outer edge of your drawing and glue this down onto a sheet of coloured Cover Paper.
Tadpoles
1. Use a Drawing Block to draw the outline of three tadpoles.
2. Use Poster colours to colour the drawings in vivid colour. Cut around the outer edge of each tadpole and glue them down along a coloured Sentence Strip.
3D Collage with Poster Colours - Collage
1. Colour one sheet of Cartridge Paper with strokes of colour to represent the sea.
2. Cover another sheet of Cartridge Paper with dabs of colour, leaving some of the white paper showing between the different colours. Set aside to dry.
3. Cut out three interesting fish shapes, all the same shape but different sizes, from the coloured paper you have created.
4. Use the left over paper scraps to create fins and tails, concertina fold the paper to add dimension to the fish. Glue these on to the fish shapes.
5. Glue on a Joggle Eye and a coloured mouth to each fish.
6. Mount the fish on to a small block of Polystyrene and then glue the fish on to the painted sea background.
7. Mount the work on to a sheet of A3 Cover Paper.
Creative Adhesive Squares & Poster Colours - Pattern & Collage
1. Cut shapes of Creative Adhesive Squares to adhere randomly over a sheet of Cartridge Paper.
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Use Poster Colours to paint blocks of colour between the paper shapes.
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Outline the shapes with a black marker.
Printing Foam & Poster Colours - Hand Colour Prints
1. Draw a design onto Printing Foam with a pen or pencil and roll over black paint.
2.
Place paper over wet paint and press before peeling the paper away to reveal the print.
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When print is dry, hand colour the white lines with Poster Colours.
Drawing Ink & Poster Colours - Drawing
1. Use a brush or stick to apply black drawing/Indian ink to paper in a free drawing style.
2. Allow the ink to dry (check to make sure the drawing/Indian ink doesn’t bleed when poster colours are applied)
3. Use a watercolour brush to apply the Zart Poster Colours.
4. When the work is completed and dry, cut around the artwork and glue it on to a mount card background.
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